Most HMM-based TTS systems use a hard voiced/unvoiced classification to produce a discontinuous F0 signal which is used for the generation of the source-excitation. When a mixed ...
Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz,...
Semantic scene classification is a useful, yet challenging problem in image understanding. Most existing systems are based on low-level features, such as color or texture, and suc...
Matthew R. Boutell, Anustup Choudhury, Jiebo Luo, ...
As ubiquitous computing technology migrates into the home environment, there has been a concurrent effort to allow users to build and customize such technologies to suit their own...
Khai N. Truong, Elaine M. Huang, Molly M. Stevens,...
The need for flexible forms of serialisation arises under many circumstances, e.g. for doing high-level inter-process communication or to achieve persistence. Many languages, inc...